A card dealers shoe or card holder for multiple decks of cards

This has the mark of Hotel Lutetia in Paris impressed into the bottom.This hotel was headquarters of the Abwehr or German Intelligence in WW2 when France was under the occupation

If only this machine could talk!..

Signs of age and wear and use

Complete with all its bits and weight

Called Le Banquier and made by J.A.L Paris

This card machine would fit in with the time frame from circa 1920s-1950s